To Trouville-sur-mer

 I left the house at 6:02 Two of my 3 alarms ⏰ went off at 5:00 am 👏

I am on Metro ligne 7 at 6:14 am

A quick change at Pyramid to ligne 14

My Train for Trouville-sur-mer is 7:27 I’m back in Paris on Friday.

at Gare St-Lazar

The same train station Claude Monet sketched.

And then painted. In January 1877 Monet rented a small flat & studio near Gare St-Lazare. In the third Impressionist exhibition which opened in April of that year, he exhibited 7 canvases of Saint Lazare station.

I always buy a pack of madeleines at the Relay comme d’hab before a trip. A lucky 🍀 token

Boarding the Normandie trains is at the back near the big map.

Boarding time (always 20 min before departure). Don’t wait till the last minute👍 You may have to walk a mile to your train 🚊 

All aboard! 

I have one of those seats all the way in the back on the upper level 🙄

Trip food: Always a boiled egg, my new Monop water bottle + les madeleines 

Bonjour Normandie 👋

Not as glamorous as pictures in MAISONS NORMANDIE I bought at the Relay in the station.

Voila!

Another view of the Gare de Trouville from a 20’s train poster. Trouville is off to the left over the bridge.

There is a big Samedi marché along the quai

In Trouville

Maybe a coffee?

A quick look at Halles des Poissonieres setting up their goods. Yum Yum

Then to Village Gypsy for a breakfast rhubarbe clafoutis.

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I wish you could hear 👂 the seagulls & smell 👃 the briny sea 🌊